Report: IBM Named #1 in Software Defined Storage Platforms
Leadership role reflects widespread adoption of IBM's strategy to apply storage virtualization, global file system software to clients' growing Big Data challenges.
IBM has announced that International Data Corp. (IDC) has ranked IBM as the top ranking supplier of Software Defined Storage Platforms (SDS-P) in its latest Worldwide Storage Software QView for the second quarter 2014, based on software revenue. The ranking reflects widespread adoption of IBM's SDS-P technologies by clients looking to gain faster, more reliable access to their growing data volumes.
IDC describes SDS-P as, "platforms that deliver the full suite of storage services via a software stack that uses (but is not dependent on) commodity hardware built with off-the-shelf components." *